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Once again, Israel’s apartheid system is turning the olive harvest into a season of horror for Palestinian families across the occupied West Bank. The series of attacks by settlers over the weekend against Palestinian residents of Khirbet Abu Falah and Taybeh in the Ramallah area, which also targeted a Washington Post photojournalist and a delegation of European diplomats, offer a glimpse into a reality of relentless aggression against Palestinians. Attempts by senior Israeli officials and electoral candidates across the political spectrum to portray this state-sponsored brutality as the work of a few individuals are a blatant distortion of reality. Amnesty International has long been sounding the alarm over the exponential rise in state-driven settler violence against Palestinians, which has sought, through terror-inspiring means, to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the occupied West Bank. This rise of violence has been fuelled by the international community’s persistent failure to take meaningful action against the very system enabling the continued oppression of Palestinians. These attacks must generate a strong response by states that claim to oppose Israel’s annexation of Palestinian territory, its continuous settlement expansion and state-driven settler violence.